God’s Glory Principle
This is a principle were God will make an
impossible situation just so that He can receive the glory for the outcome of
that situation. God likes to showcase
His Glory and Mercy as a prelude to what He would do on the Cross! The Apostle Paul understood this principle
very well. He told us in Romans
9:21-23. “Hath not the potter power
over the clay...if God, willing to shew wrath, and to make his power
known...”
The
Exodus: God created all of the drama
of Moses going to Egypt to free the Israelite's, all of the plagues, and the
hardening of pharaohs heart to make it all seem impossible until the very
end. All of this was mainly done to
maximize the glory for God, and show the Israelite's that He alone is their
Savior.
Jericho: Joshua 6. The city of Jericho was the
strongest fortress city in Palestine.
The Israelite's could not take the city without heavy equipment. God told Joshua something ridicules like
marching around the city seven times!
All so that God could maximize the glory for Himself.
Gideon: Judges 6-8.
God instructed Gideon to attack a large, trained army with a very small
and untrained group just to make things impossible. God maximized the glory for Himself.
David and Goliath: 1 Samuel 17. God sent the little shepherd boy, called
David to fight a large well trained giant.
It seemed impossible which maximized the glory for God.
Jehoshaphat’s
choir: 2 Chronicles 20:21. King Jehoshaphat was fearful when he had
gotten reports of invasion from all sides.
He called on the LORD for help, and God told him go to the place where
the enemy would be, Moabites and Ammonites, and to just stand there! They did that, singing as they went, and God
had the enemy kill themselves. God made
an impossible situation in order to maximize the glory for Himself.
Nehemiah’s
Wall: Nehemiah 6:16. Nehemiah
was sent to reconstruct the walls
of the city of Jerusalem. When he saw
all local political opposition and the peoples lack of will, it looked
impossible. God made it so, and provided
the way to maximize the glory for Himself.
Israel’s Light: Isaiah 49:6.
The prophet Isaiah said that Israel, and her Messiah, would be a light unto the
Gentile world. This seemed impossible at
the times due to the fact that Israel was in a backslide condition! But, seven-hundred years later Jesus did just
that on the cross.
William J. Roop, M.A.B.S.
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